Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-21
New HAVEN, MAY q, 1887,
A BLOOD-THlRSTY EDITOR.

A BLOOD-THIRSTY EDITOR.
One Of the features of the existing
chaotic condition of society, and
natural product Of our competitive,
individualistic fertilization" is the
crop of warlke individuals who seem
to think that nothing less than the
blood of their opponents in politics
can atone for their opposition. We
have not noticed quite so rabid an
inclination for murder in the New
England States as in the West, but
should not be Mt all surprised i the
development Of capitalism, and the
attendant sharper conflict for midi
vidual supremacy--for class interest
finally degraded our Eastern edi-
torial writer's to the level of the chief
scribe of The st. Paul (Minn.) Dis
patch. This irritable gentleman,
writhing under the mild criticism of
the WoRKMEN ADVOCATE, attempts
to justify himself IN an editorial
published on the seventh inst, IN
which he makes baseess insinuations,
and ends up with the coward CAPT
talists' last argument, "the hang
mans rope" rs u quiotus for the
eternal truth that will not down.
As u matter of curiosity we give the
article as it appeared in the Dis
patch:
A WARNING.
The st. Paul DsrArcu is neither better nor
worse than hundreds Of Its dsgraCctul contem-
porares, the capitalistic press of America
The man who wrote the above, were
he in Chicago at the time Of the Hay
market murders would to-day be in Jail
there, if he were not, like his fellow so
cialist, Schnabels, an OutCast upon the
face of the earth He sets up Gmprint)
az Il WoRkMEN'S ADVOCATE, that being
the title of the miserable little sheet in
New Haven, Ct, which prints his rant
For some time past the DISPATCH has
been honored by the abuse of certain an
archist guttersnipe prints inside inside
and outside of this State. 1t has engaged
itself in the discussion from time to
time of the vast social and industrial
la, al,
a condition fit at least for partial settle
ment. II is identified, for better or for
worse, with the interests of the great
mass of men who labor with their hands.
1t has never hesitated to say so, nor to
condemn openly any public policy which
would divert the current of such settle
ment from the direction Of a more lust
and humane participation ON the part of
working people in the material blessings
of civilization than that which prevails
to-day. 1t has endeavored conscien-
tiously to study those great problems
and to throw whatever little light it can
upon their true adjustment. That its
voice will ever be raised against the hair
Drained dreamers who would tear down
the social fabric that chaos might follow,
we take the liberty of assuring our all
wise, all just and all.charitable ceusors.
And the peace and order" Is the peace of
submission and uhect slavery: the peace that
exists between the armed SLAYER and the man
aeled slave; but withal, II il the peace and quiet
that prevails for time IN the top of a sumbtr
ing volcano. Let the DISPArtH and It's ahettcrs
take warning In time for the presence" of So.
cialists will continue, their numbers increase
and their purposes will be accomplished.
So say you, indeed! If American
workingmen, possessing all of the rights
and franchises which control every
agency of our government, We're content
to live the lives of "manacled slaves,
they would. indeed, be an extraordinary
people, and would he worthy of the
lowest form of social enslavement which
exists on either hemisphere, But what
ever may be the forms of social mequail-
ty which exist to day, however more re-
voting they may present themselves to
the mind of the philosopher or the phil
anthropist of future generation, We,
in turn, warn the riotous and lazy scouu-
drcls who preach the gospel of anarch
ism-wherever they may be found be
tween Minneapolis and New Haven
that the hangman's rope is the only tru,
civilizing agent for such as they hav,
shown themselves to be.
Why is it that the capitalisti(